Nehemiah Prays for the Sons of Israel

1 The words of ^(A)Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.

Now it happened in ^(B)the month Chislev, ^(C)in the twentieth year—and I was in ^(D)Susa the ^[a]capitol—

² that ^(A)Hanani, one of my brothers, and ^[a]some men from Judah came; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped and remain from the captivity, and about Jerusalem.